Russia launched cluster munitions among the missiles it used in the attacks against the Ukrainian city – port of Odessa, Ukrainian sources reported today.

“It is an indiscriminate weapon that can cause many casualties among civilians” Ukraine’s public prosecutor’s office said in a Telegram post about yesterday’s attack.

Metal fragments were found within a radius of 1.5 kilometers from the impact site, the statement said.

The announcement was accompanied by a video showing the explosions caused by the ballistic missile “Iskander” (Iskander), because of which five people were killed and more than 30 were injured.

Ukraine’s public prosecutors office accused Russian officers of being responsible for using the weapon indiscriminately to kill as many civilians as possible.

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In the midst of the conflict, both sides have made use of cluster munitions, although their use is prohibited.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine is a signatory to the international treaty banning cluster munitions, which entered into force in 2010.

Ukraine had recently fired US-supplied missiles with such munitions at targets on the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.